Amorous Marines get rough reception

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THERE can be few more perfect recipes for bar-room brawls. The nights last all day, the temperature hovers at minus 30C (-22F), the only diversion is the pub, there is a chronic shortage of women, jealous local men — and 800 visiting Royal Marines.

Porsanger, in the far north of Norway, with a population of 4,000, has become alarmed at a doubling of violent crime in the past year. The number of recorded violent incidents has jumped from 16 to 33, and the police — and the local bouncer — are blaming lonely British Marines.